MBA Intern, Strategy & Development

Soluna develops renewable-energy-powered data centers that convert excess solar, hydro, and wind energy into computational work such as Bitcoin mining, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. The MBA Intern, Strategy & Development will manage the front end of the site opportunity funnel by qualifying leads, building light economic screens, tracking market and pipeline intelligence, and presenting recommendations to the Development & Strategy team and senior leadership.

What you'll do:

• Run inbound and sourced leads through Soluna's qualification framework — power cost and curtailment profile, interconnection status and queue position, land control, fiber and water availability, and counterparty credibility
• Produce a standard one-page qualification summary for each lead so the team can make a go / no-go call quickly and consistently
• Recommend advance, park, or pass on every opportunity you touch, with the reasoning written down — including the reasoning behind the passes
• Maintain the lead intake queue so nothing sits unreviewed and the team always knows what is waiting
• Build first-pass economic screens for qualified sites — estimated cost of power, capacity sizing, indicative capex, and top-line return
• Run sensitivities on the variables that actually move the answer, such as energy price, curtailment hours, hashprice or contracted AI/HPC revenue, and time to energization
• Pressure-test counterparty assumptions against market data and flag where a lead's claims are not supported by the underlying economics
• Keep the screening model clean and reusable so the team can run it without you after the internship ends
• Track opportunities across ERCOT, SPP, MISO, and PJM, including interconnection queue movement and curtailment trends that create new leads
• Update the pipeline tracker and executive summary so leadership has a current view of what is in the funnel and where it stands
• Research specific markets, utilities, or counterparties on demand to support live deal conversations
• Present a summer project to the Development & Strategy team and senior leadership — a durable improvement to how Soluna screens and qualifies opportunities

What they're looking for:

• Currently enrolled in an MBA program, with an expected graduation date following the internship period
• Strong Excel modeling skills — comfortable building a screening model from a blank sheet, not just editing someone else's
• Demonstrated analytical judgment: the ability to reach a defensible answer with incomplete information and say clearly what you do not know
• Clear, concise written communication; you can compress a complicated opportunity into one page a busy executive will actually read
• Genuine interest in energy, digital infrastructure, or the intersection of the two
• Prior experience in energy, infrastructure, project finance, investment banking, private equity, or corporate development
• Familiarity with U.S. wholesale power markets, interconnection processes, or renewable project development
• Exposure to market data platforms such as Orennia, Velocity Suite, or similar
• Working knowledge of Bitcoin mining economics or AI/HPC data center demand drivers
• Comfort building in PowerPoint for investor- and board-facing audiences